The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE:

SENATE-A bill was passed on the 8th requir-
ing insurance notices to be ID st least three pa
pers IN each county.
AssEMBLY-Biils were introduced: ReqtiifiRs
railway and car companies to heat their pas
senger cars by other means than stsves, under
severe pcnslties; requiring them TO carry an
axe and a hand-saH on the outside as well as
the inside of every passenger car; taxing the
capital stock of mining companies snd the
gross earnings of express companies. Bills
were killed for the punishment of persons
ffaudulentlY gaining access to agricultural
fairs; requiring mortgages of personal prop
erty TO show good and sufheieIt reason for the
seiztire Of such property; and permitting mar
ried women to have the same rights as Sit-
nesses in civil actions az unmarried women.
SENATE-A bill was introduced ON The 9th
which provides that no railroad company shall
in any way collect or receive from any person
any greater or less sums for services rendered
than from any other person for the SAME serv-
ices rendered. 1t permits the granting of special
rates for CHARITABLE and philanthropic purposes,
compels companies TO grsDt free transportation
to several State officers members of Legisla-
ture, and boards of charities and reform, ana the
State Board of Supervision. Any company that
Violates the law will be fined not less THAI 500
h6r rfoSe than $1,000.
ASSEMBLY, were introduced; To re-
mill; making the prejudice Of d judge the only
ground on which change of ve1u6 may be
obtained; permitting voters of cities, villages,
towns or counties to vote liquor prohibition or
otherwise; prohibiting the leasing of convict
labor. and generally looxing to the education,
lndustridly and otherwise. of prisoners; re-
curing all prison-made goods to be labeled as
such making ii a misdemeanor to fraudu-
lently gain access to fair grounds during ex-
I.sl N%1An
trust funds for longer than twenty years or
for less than five per cent! interest
SENATE-A bill was passed on the 10th appro-
priating $4,000 annually TO the Fish Commits
sion for the next two years.
ASSEMBLY-Bills were introduced: To abol-
ish prison-contract labor and to pay convicts
wages for labor, after deducting their eX-
pensesj TO appropriate 100000 to buy fair
grounds at Milwaukee,; to provide for a State
Railway Commission of thfee members at sal
aries OF $1,000 each, and a secretary ct sal
airy of 81, 800, the commissioners to be 9p-
pointed by the Governor; forbidding requests
by will of more than 5000 to wife or child,
or more than $500, 900 to q corporation, except
when made fer religious educational or
benevolent purposes; to limit the amount of
insurance taken on buildings to four-fifths
their cash value, and loss shall be adjusted In
that ratio; to prohibit debtors giving prefer
! enGe to creditors, and for the equal distFibu-
ton of assets.
SENATE-Bills were introduced on the nth:
Appropriating S44, 900 to defray tbs expenses of
the State charitable, reformatory and penal in
situations for two years. repeating the law
which requires newspapers to be established
two years before being permitted to publish the
county tax rolls; requiring boards of assess
ment to be composed of the county clerk, reg
| lister of deeds and county judge; appropriating
$4,000 for new buildings at the State School for
INDECENT Children. Adjourned to the 18th.
AssEMBLY-Bills were introduced: Making
! railway companies liable for injuries received
| by employees through the carelessness of the
company's employees; making it misdemeanor
to kill birds for millinery purposes; to make it
! a States prison offense for husband or father
to abandon wife or child: to regulate telephone
| charges, and to abolish the State pension
agency. Bills were passed: Prohibiting minors
from playing in saloons on pool or pigeon-hole
! tables; making mortgage on household goods
invalid, without the signature of the wife if she
! be living with her husband, and abolishing the
State Board of Immigration. Adjourned to the
! 18th.
! SENATE-A bill was introduced on the 14th
prohibiting the employment of children under
| fourteen years of age in workshops or fac
tories. The TomahawS Land Cempanys bill
|
the Wisconsin river was passed.
AssEMBLY-Bills were introduced: To create
| the office of Assistant State Librarian, with q
salary of 1900 year; to prohibit the employ
ment of children of fourteen and under in
factories to put the appointment of trus
tees of county asylums for chronic insane in
| the hands of the Governor; to create O Board
of Lunacy consisting of five physicians in each
county to make the salaries of county Of
! ficers payable monthly instead of quarterly;
to prevent deception in the making and sale OF
cheese, and providing fine of S25 for each Of
tense; to provide for course of instruction in
farmers institutes in every county of the State
where forty pupils desire such instruction; tc
fine any person $40 who has been elected to q
| town Office and who refuses to qualify; to au
thorize railroad companies to appoint police
officers The Tomahawk Land Company's bill
| to construct its dam across the Wisconsin river
and for the Improvement of the river was
| passed.